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In 1997, a juice company dumped 13,200 tons of orange peels on dead land in Costa Rica, unknowingly launching an extraordinary reforestation experiment. The deal helped both sides by getting rid of food waste while helping expand a national park. It seemed like a waste disposal problem that might help some barren land. Sixteen years later, Princeton researcher Timothy Treuer...
Most people only find out their blood type when donating blood or when a medical emergency calls for it. Recent research suggests this biological marker may influence heart health. Multiple large-scale studies tracking hundreds of thousands of people over decades show links between blood type and cardiovascular disease risk factors. These findings don’t mean blood type determines medical destiny, but they offer insights for healthcare decisions. This genetic information helps both patients and doctors...
Scientists have solved a medical mystery that puzzled doctors for decades. Colon cancer cases among young adults have doubled since the mid-1990s, with one in five diagnoses now appearing in people under 55. New research shows the bacterial culprit behind this explosion and gives us the first simple screening tool to fight back. Half of...
Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records began. Though we cannot sense these changes, they show the forces that reshape our world. Most people assume days last exactly 24 hours, but Earth’s spinning speed changes constantly. Scientists found our planet completing rotations faster than ever before. July 9, 2025, broke all previous records, while July...
In June 2025, Bob Diachenko and his team at Cybernews made a big claim about a massive data breach discovery. They said they had found 16 billion exposed passwords sitting in 30 different databases. The passwords exposed are login credentials that people used for Google, Facebook, Apple, GitHub, Telegram, banks, and shopping sites. These companies weren’t breached themselves, but criminals had collected user passwords for these services through malware...
In May 2025, the U.S. issued a travel advisory for Switzerland. For most people, this seemed confusing. Switzerland is widely considered one of the safest places on Earth. The advisory tells Americans to “exercise normal precautions” when visiting. Headlines suggesting serious warnings about Switzerland spread across news sites and social media. So what had changed? Switzerland Lives Up to Its Safe Reputation...
Scientists tested bags of pre-washed salad from supermarkets across Europe. In the United Kingdom alone, 16% of the samples contained tiny organisms that can affect the brain. The same parasite appeared in packaged salad bags throughout the rest of Europe, but nowhere at such high rates. Parasites in the European Food Supply The research covered 3,293 ready-to-eat salad bags from supermarkets in 10 European countries....
Most of us have done it. Some of us love it. Others find it awkward or even repulsive. But this intimate behavior remains one of the most puzzling human actions. But why do we kiss in the first place? And what exactly happens in our brains and bodies when we do it? Scientists have been fascinated by these questions for...
FlightRadar24, a popular flight tracking website, posted a flight map on June 17, 2025, that revealed a disturbing skull-like pattern. Four gaps in worldwide flight patterns had coincidentally formed the shape of a human skull. The missing flight routes over Ukraine, Iran, Tibet, and Central Africa created what users described as death staring back from the world map....
Flash floods killed at least 43 people when the Guadalupe River swept through central Texas early Friday morning, July 4th, Kerr County authorities said. The disaster hit near Kerrville around 4 a.m. after overnight storms caused the river to rise 26 feet in 45 minutes. Camp Mystic, a summer camp with 750 girls, suffered the...
Elon Musk called President Trump’s spending bill the “Debt Slavery Bill” on X in June, saying it would raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. The debt ceiling sets the legal limit on how much money the federal government can borrow. Senator Rand Paul shared similar concerns about the borrowing increase. On July 4th, Independence...